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[ON THE DISCUSSION OF THE MILITARY QUESTION
IN SWISS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY]

((*Basler Vorwärts*. Friday, March 2, 1917 (No. 52). Article (unsigned) "On the Military Question." Reprint from *Neue Freie Zeitung* (the Solothurn party organ), No. from Monday, regarding the meeting in Olten the day before (Sunday? February 25?), with reports by Schmid (Olten) and Müller (Bern). (All of them, more than 100 people, unanimously "indignant" at the disputes and danger of a "split" over the military question, pure theory, etc.). Schmid himself in *Neue Freie Zeitung* ("yesterday," i.e., March 1) prints that he too "submits" to this, preserving his "principled views," that the time for deciding the question is most "unfavorable"...

...Not a word from the editorial board!!: Only between two quotations a remark: a strange phenomenon, "remarkable," because at the Solothurn congress they say everyone applauded Affolter enthusiastically when he said that he is against the defense of the fatherland).
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Regarding the meeting in Olten (February 25), Schmid writes that there were about 100 people, all "serious people"... "the foundation of the social-democratic party," that of the young there were "only two," "and of city comrades no more than a good dozen"... "This equally disconcerted the more radical elements"... writes Schmid.

*Basler Vorwärts* March 12, 1917 (No. 60)
A note regarding Müller's victory in the South quartier (Bern) 37 votes against 4:... "Es scheint, dass Genosse Grimm dieser Stellungnahme (new amendment by Müller and Co.) nicht entgegentrat, sonst wäre dieser Beschluss kaum ein fast einstimmiger"...

Justification by *Berner Tagwacht* (March 13, 1917) that Grimm was "ill," that he is for "the majority"...

*Berner Tagwacht* March 12, 1917 (No. 60) "Oberholzer's conciliatory proposal" (South Quartier—Bern) to accept the resolution of the majority, but to postpone the entire question until contact with other parties, to decide them jointly!!!*

*On the back of page 21 the following unfinished note in an unknown hand: "Getreu den Beschlüssen der Kientaler Konferenz protestiert die Versammlung aufs entschiedenste gegen die pazifistische Phrase namentlich wenn die Sozialpatrioten von einem sogenannten demokratischen Frieden" ("Faithful to the resolutions of the Kienthal Conference, the assembly protests most decisively against the pacifist phrase, particularly when the social-patriots speak of so-called democratic peace")...[Editor's note]

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quartier (Bern) 37 votes against 4:... "It appears that Comrade Grimm did not speak against this position" (Müller's new amendment and Co.), "otherwise the resolution could scarcely have been adopted almost unanimously"...

Justification by *Berner Tagwacht* (March 13, 1917) that Grimm was "ill," that he is for "the majority"...

*Berner Tagwacht* March 12, 1917 (No. 60) "Oberholzer's conciliatory proposal" (South Quartier—Bern) to accept the resolution of the majority, but to postpone the entire question until contact with other parties, to decide them jointly!!!

R. A. Henry (engineer). "Socialism and the Art of Command in Industry." 272 pp. 3.50 fr. 1914 (Gautier-Villars).

Gaston Richard: "The Conflict of National Autonomy and Imperialism." 2.00 fr. (1916) (International Sociological Library).

Lucien Roure. Patriotism, Imperialism, Militarism. Paris, 1915. (18 pp. 0.80 fr.).

*Avanti* No. 347: resolution of the parliamentary group ("sofisticazione") 1916 No. 348 December 21, 1916.

No. 1 *Polemichette*: "I confini strategici" (regarding Turati's phrase: they say all bourgeois journals seized upon it. We have two positions on the national question: some for "diritti nazionali," others (we) against.

"I problemi nazionali sono superati dall'attuale società borghese capitalista"...

[BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE*]
Note made on the cover of a notebook. Editor.

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